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Shakespeare’s Cymbeline explores how to live through the end of the world

Written in 1611, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a raw mess – full of feeling and as messy as life. The 18th-century man of letters, Samuel Johnson decried the play as a work of “unresisting imbecility”, a hotch-potch of incongruities.

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Could you watch 8 plays in 12 hours? How The Player Kings creates binge-worthy Shakespeare

Some say Shakespeare invented the “history play” – but he had a lot of help.

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Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him

So many people and organisations are capitulating to the US president, from Silicon Valley to the Democrats, legal firms and elite universities. How realistic is the prospect of Trump 3.0, asks Arwa Mahdawi

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The best theatre to stream this month: Macbeth, Life of Pi, Playhouse Creatures and more

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

It’s time to end the toxic and divisive debate on sex and gender

Human rights, respect and dignity have been forgotten about

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How Shakespeare can help us put meaning back in money

From greed for resources and money to technology run amok and a politics of domination, hatred and fear of others, our world sometimes seems to be on a course of assured destruction.

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Exclusion of Drag Shows from Texas A&M Venues Likely Unconstitutionally Viewpoint-Based

A short excerpt from today's long decision by Judge Lee Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.) in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v.… The post Exclusion of Drag Shows from Texas A&M Venues Likely Unconstitutionally Viewpoint-Based appeared first on Reason.com.

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Othello review – Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s underwhelming blockbuster

The record-breaking take on the Shakespearean tragedy might already be a smash, but it’s disappointingly muddled

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Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?

The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

The Guardian - UK

I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdict

Claude and Grok have both been winning plaudits for their creative writing ability so here's what happens when a published author critiques their work.

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The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world

The first half rips your heart out. The second attempts, tenderly, to put it back again. This is The Winter’s Tale, currently being performed at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol.

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Shakespeare’s birthplace trust to ‘decolonise’ collection amid claims of promoting ‘white supremacy’

The trust is exploring the ‘continued impact of Empire’ on its collections and how ‘Shakespeare’s work has played a part in this’

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'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021

Many such cases.

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Macbeth review – a dynamic tragedy of somersaulting ambition

This brisk staging for young audiences has acrobatic witches and action-movie fights but misses some of the play’s bloodcurdling weirdness

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Husband begs internet for help with wife’s ‘deranged’ plan to name their twins Romeo & Juliet

‘Naming twins after famous lovers?? It’s not good don’t do it,’ one person argues

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Bardy Thomas obituary

Other lives: Voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada

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Lady Dimitrescu actor wasn't a gamer before Resident Evil Village, so she "pulled a lot of Shakespeare stuff" into her vampire mommy role

Lady D "really truly" changed her life

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Australia to host ‘Space-out competition’ – where people compete to do nothing

Created by a South Korean artist suffering burnout, the serious but absurd contest is just one of 65 events coming to Melbourne’s winter arts festival

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Review clearing Manchester’s Royal Exchange of censorship criticised

A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play’s songs

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With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast

The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight on the front line

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I’m so proud of my trans daughter for coming out in this intolerant climate

Letter: Shakespeare wrote: ‘This above all, to thine own self be true.’ Having the courage to do that when transphobia is rife is worthy of love and respect, writes Rachael Stevenson

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Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

The Guardian - UK

Love’s Labour’s Lost (More or Less) review – lads on tour in Ibiza swear off sex

Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane relocate Shakespeare’s comedy of abstinence to the throbbing heart of 90s hedonism

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Is this a cheese grater I see before me? This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before

Table Top Shakespeare involves six performers retelling the Bard’s plays using household objects on a table. Yes, it is immensely – if not universally – popular

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Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest

In December 1817, the Romantic poet John Keats sent a letter to his brothers George and Thomas, in which he celebrated a quality in Shakespeare’s work he termed “negative capability”. He defined this as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after…

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